The Oneness of God and the Unity of Our Faith . . . A Personal Journey in Three Abrahamic Religions by Arthur G. Gish

The word “Islam” means “submission to God,” not a particular religious group.
Many Muslim scholars have argued that interpreting this verse to refer to formal
Islam is a later interpretation.45 Islam is not the first or only universal religion.

PREFACE Islam is the religion of about 140 million people in South-East Asia
living in an area stretching from southern Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and
Indonesia to the southern Philippines. The existence of this population has not, ...

Islam is one of the world's great religions. It has become a truism to acknowledge,
also, that it is much more than merely a religion to be practised on a Friday in the
Mosque. Islam embraces - or should embrace - the entirety of man's life.